Breezy black criminal attorney Tara Delacruz gets unpopular clients exonerated while her rival, the white-bread mayor and secret immortal, Cord Smith, wants them off his streets. Somewhere along their craggy coast, a fiend buries his victims at low tide at neck level. When the tide rises, they don't drown. Their town is spooked. Cord knows someone has found an evil use of immortality and believes the lawyer may have run across him. When he's forced to speak with her, he falls for the woman he censures. Bound to a secret conspiracy, he can't share everything, yet he warns her not to accept this twisted case.
Book Buyers Best finalist Kathleen Rowland is a people person who writes romantic suspense. Her day job as a programmer analyst was never as interesting as observing office politics. On a larger-than-life scale, her heroes and heroines get caught up in downward spirals and external disasters. Something beautiful comes out of suffering. Currently, Kathleen is writing the third book in a series for Tirgearr Publishing. Bittersweet Alliance will follow Unholy Alliance and Deadly Alliance. Kathleen and her husband, Gerry, live in Southern California and is proud of their five grown children and four grandchildren. When not writing, she provides assistance for foster (CASA) children and fundraises for needy families. A member of the Orange County Chapter of Romance Writers of American, she will chair the next Orange Rose Contest for unpublished authors.